David Wade
President at KastleTek
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Wade is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of P&L leadership across sales, marketing, supply & trading, and site operations in the energy sector. He has driven multi-billion dollar businesses—leading teams that generated $8B in revenue and managed complex acquisitions, joint ventures, and risk/control frameworks across the Americas. Known for simplifying businesses to reduce risk while improving profitability, he delivered consecutive year-on-year performance improvements and a record profit in 2015. His background blends engineering rigor (BS in Electrical Engineering, MS in Engineering Management) with commercial savvy from roles spanning refinery operations to global trading. As President of KastleTek he now applies that mix to business and education consulting, and he also contributes to open-source engineering efforts—helping stabilize numerical compression tooling by improving Cython builds and test automation. Colleagues describe him as a practical strategist who turns complex operational challenges into auditable, high-performing systems.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MS Engineering Management, MS Engineering Management at Drexel UniversityKellogg School of ManagementBS Electrical Engingeering, BS Electrical Engingeering at Rutgers University
Github Skills (12)
python10
numpy10
cython10
testing9
build-system8
typed-array7
parallel-arrays7
multidimensional-arrays7
compression7
floating-point7
arrayobject7
dynamic-array7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
llnl/zfp
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Compressed numerical arrays that support high-speed random access
Role in this project:
Backend & Test Automation Engineer
Backend & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 22 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving the codebase's quality and maintainability by addressing Cython-related issues and removing superfluous code. They fixed errors related to Cython's "Assignment to non-lvalue" and eliminated trailing semicolons that caused compilation problems. The user also worked on building the wheel with setup.py, including adding the URL and updating the version for the project.
random-accessradiussdata-vizcompressionfloating-point
da-wad/zfp
Mar 2020 - Nov 2024
Library for compressed numerical arrays that support high throughput read and write random access
Contributions:33 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 9 months
hpc-applicationscompressioneigen3arrayshigh-throughput
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